Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
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Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#2Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#3Extremely relevant:
Ramp Router: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48987253
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#4Do they have to
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#5Interesting. I guess it fits since Openrouter's main value is in consolidating payment to all these different model providers
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#6https://taikhooms.substack.com/p/why-openrouter-can-be-the-n...
> it has clear platform dynamics. It is an aggregator of AI models, and once enterprises use it, that creates switching costs since all your AI expense is in one place: logs, budgets, etc, so switching would be painful and generally not make a lot of sense.
Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#7Does it mean openrouter can't sustain on its own? If so, bad news, new owner 'd surely want it to be profitable, so expect price hike.. :<
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#8https://taikhooms.substack.com/p/why-openrouter-can-be-the-n...
> it has clear platform dynamics. It is an aggregator of AI models, and once enterprises use it, that creates switching costs since all your AI expense is in one place: logs, budgets, etc, so switching would be painful and generally not make a lot of sense. Clearly what we need is a Router Router, to avoid router lock-in.
You jest but this is basically exactly what happened in crypto.
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#9Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just spend $1B reimplementing it?
(Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)
Re: Stripe in talks to buy OpenRouter for ~10B
#10Wouldn’t it be cheaper to just spend $1B reimplementing it? (Of course that is absurd, $10M would be plenty)
The value is in the existing customers, isn't it? Not so much the product.